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Coverage

Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes

Data was collected from 2007-2011 and is scheduled to be collected every second year in the future. In 2011, 9,782 individuals were contacted with 7,484 individuals or 76.5% fully or partially participating.

First year of collection

2007

Stratification if applicable

Recipients of practical and personal help in the home aged 67+

Base used for sampling

Registry data

Geographical coverage and breakdowns

National coverage, can be split by region

Age range

Population aged 67 and over

Statistical representativeness

Representative sample of recipients of practical and personal help in the home aged 67+

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics

Five specific indicators are included: 1) Experienced quality of the help; 2) stability of the help; 3) number of different caretakers; 4) knowledge of the possibility of choosing between public and private help providers; 5) knowledge of the possibility of flexible help in the home.

Linkage

Standardisation

Possibility of linkage among databases

Can be linked to anonymized microdata in the Statistics Denmark registries.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable

N.A.

Breaks

Continuity is broken in the sense that the data was collected annually between 2007 and 2011, and is only collected biannually since 2011.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection

Same questions are asked each year.

Applicability

Strengths:
Questions relate to the different aspects of help, i.e. personal help, practical help or both. Both elderly individuals living in their own home and in a elderly home participate.
Weakness:
Some response categories include too few respondents to be reported, e.g. for indicators 1, 2 and 3, only the response categories "Satisfied" and "Very satisfied" are reported.